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Comment by Antilurker77

Give each healer one of these cloaks, stack Boomies, gg.

Comment by Vergilius

I predict a swift and merciless nerf. Even as a random drop, in the current form this is extremely overpowered. At the very least it's gonna have to get a "once procced it can't affect x player for x minutes" clause.

Comment by Kinria

This is likely going to see future Nerfs from the beyond. Likely a huge cooldown, or a tone down ressurection.

Comment by Reignac

The flavor text is part of Norgannon's quote when he turned Malygos into an Aspect:

I believe that you will find that my gift to you is not just a profound duty—which it is—but also a delight—which it is! Magic must be regulated, managed, and controlled. But it must also be appreciated and valued and not hoarded. Such is the contradiction you must deal with. May you be dutiful ... and joyous both.

Comment by whisperingsage

Much stronger for fire and frost than arcane for mages, as their instants are a regular part of their rotation, and letting them cast while moving helps them to proc more instants. Whereas arcane only wants to use barrage while conserving, and none of their other instants are used in the normal rotation if they even count (AE, Slow, Blink, Displacement). For aoe, arcane only uses instants, so the only point that would help is if transitioning from aoe to single target as the pack dies down.

Comment by slanglois

It's not overpowered. It depends on multiple factors : proc chance, content (pve, pvp, type of boss), class/spec and more. On a SP PvE player point of view, I don't feel like it's reliable item for a moving fight, unless it's a multiple target fight. Let's say the proc chance is around 4% (wich is a lot) you might use this proc around 2 or 3 time in a hole fight, depending on your class/spec. SP will not benefit it a lot, since they have Shadow Word: Pain and Shadow Word: Death wich they use every 13 sec in a one-boss-fight or more if the target is at 20%. It become reliable, for SP, when there's a lot of target to hit with Shadow Word: Pain and become usefull when the fight involves a lot of movement.

But, heh, the stats are amazing!

Comment by wisedada

In case you are wondering, you will be able to transmog Legion legendaries to other appearances and vice versa, as stated by Warcraft Devs on Twitter.

Comment by jjanchan

UPDATE: The latest Beta patch has adjusted many of the passive effects of these legendaries. The following represents the most current in-game data as of August 28/16 (many of the Wowhead tooltips have not been updated yet!)

This is one of the shared legendaries coming in Legion. Most of the new legendary drops will be class specific, while these select "shared" legendaries will be usable by multiple classes. Keep in mind that only legendaries your class can use will drop for you.

At the beginning of Legion, only 1 legendary item can be equipped at a time. Over time, as the expansion progresses this cap will be increased (Source).

Here is some further information about these items:

The legendary items are intended to be used for the entire expansion. They are currently item level 895, and it remains to be seen whether this will change prior to release, or during Legion itself (for comparison, Mythic mode gear from The Emerald Nightmare is iLvl 880).

Thus far, it appears that legendaries will drop from dungeon bosses, raid bosses, PvP Strongboxes, Mythic+ Weekly Caches and World Quest Caches (rewarded after completing 4 world quests). As it stands, these will be the ONLY sources that will yield legendaries. Blizzard may expand where they can come from in the future (Source: Legion Summit Dev Interview, Video | Text Summary; June 16 Legion Live Developer Q & A, 53:30)

While the legendaries are rare drops, they are not fully random - there will be ways to target specific items (Source).

More difficult content will have a higher chance of dropping these items (Source)

It should be nearly impossible to get a duplicate legendary item. (Source: Legion Summit Dev Interview, Video | Text Summary)

Some level of bad luck streak protection also applies to legendary items (i.e. the chances of you getting a legendary will slowly increase if you don't have one drop). (Source: Legion Summit Dev Interview, Video | Text Summary)

If the slot for the item is transmoggable, you can transmog these legendaries to other appearances, and vice versa (unlike legendary items from previous expansions) (Source)

Legion legendary procs/effects will be disabled in instanced PvP (Source)

Blizzard plans to institute a "suppression aura" in effect for a certain number of weeks after Mythic raids are available, which would disable any legendary item passive effects (they would still function normally as high-ilvl regular items, with the primary/secondary stats intact). (Source)

UPDATE - As per the latest information, Legion legendaries WILL BE allowed in all raid situations, INCLUDING Mythic difficulty. The previously noted "suppression aura" in Mythic will not be implemented. (Source: Legion Summit Dev Interview, Video | Text Summary)

All legendary bonus effects are passive "Equip" effects (there are no "Use" effects on these items)All Legion legendaries are Bind-on-Pickup, and cannot be sold, traded or listed on the Auction House.

After not taking damage for 5 sec, you gain an absorb shield for 25% of your maximum health for 30 sec. This effect may occur once every 30 sec.

Comment by Detinator247

As a fire mage this is making me sweat with anticipation! :D

Comment by killainstnct2

This dropped from an emissary cache for me the other day. As a destro warlock this was quite a nice thing to get, not the best legendary but has certainly helped.

A few things about it. I have had back to back procs where I've gone proc -> chaos bolt -> conflag and procced off the conflag. It seems to have either no internal cooldown or a very small internal cooldown.

It procs of of Life Tap, and can proc off of Havoc (useful for single target fights if you have to move and have nothing else to press)

Standing still and casting a spell consumes the buff.

I think it's a solid legendary, but you can't rely heavily on it. Careful management of instant casts helps with making it proc when you need it though.

Comment by xilodon

The proc from this currently has some really strange behavior for priests. Penance will consume the buff even though it doesn't benefit from it as you can already cast it while moving, making an already weak legendary for disc even weaker than it needs to be.

Meanwhile for shadow, Mind Sear (another channeled spell like Penance) not only benefits from the proc, but it doesn't consume it at all. So if you're spamming Mind Sear on a large group, Norgannon's Foresight gives you a full 15 seconds of being able to channel while moving.

edit: This issue seems to be fixed on the 7.1 PTR, making this a bit less garbage-tier for Disc priests going forward.

Comment by Rushgarroth

Right now this is realy good for Affliction since your channeled filler spells like Drain Soul wont consume the buff. You can just channel again and again till the buff runs out. Might work with mindflay on priest too. I cant tell but i assume it will act the same. For other specs like destruction i think its pretty much useless, since your talents are nearly at 1 sec cast time with right talents and it will consume the buff instantly once it proccs... thats like 1-2 meter distance. And it probably wont proc when you need it.

I would like to see a change to it where it will give you a buff like Spiritwalker's Grace Spiritwalker's GraceWould balance different specs much better. Maybe something like 5-6 second on use. With 1-2 min cd would be fine.

Comment by Rispetto

Easily the worst legendary available to fire mages at the time of this posting. Ice Floes does the exact same thing, but better, and is replaced by no PvE worthy talents. A lot of people say the ring is the worst, but at least it has crit and a socket for even more crit. These feet are the only legendary available for fire mages that don't have critical strike on them, which is your most important stat by far, followed by intellect.

If you're unlucky enough to have this be your first legendary then it will serve no purpose other than being a stat stick and padding for your ilvl. Currently during 7.0.3 its ilvl is 895, and honestly I'd rather wear an 860+ set of feet with a decent critical strike roll on them.

Comment by 27media

as a Holy Priest, these make Divine Hymn castable while moving. Suck it, Resto Droods!

Comment by jongduck

Norgannon's Foresight - Your instant spells have a chance to make your next non-instant spell castable while moving. Fire Mages already have a high amount of mobility, so unless a fight requires near-constant movement, this is not a good item.

omg trash on fire mage :/

Comment by AWildmann

Since nobody actually posted any kind of guide on how this legendary works, here's my experience, despite me not liking the effect.

Playing Affliction though is more interesting. Not only you have more instant casts, but Drain LifeCAN be cast while moving, without consuming the proc. So for whoever is playing afflic, there's this little thing that you can "exploit" on certain moments.

Comment by PatoP11

Just got this Legendary from a Dragons of Nightmare Heroic kill... as a mage i was pretty bummed cause its the worst Legendary for fire but i realized something that helped me improve my Farm speed once i started farming with these on. Whenever u get a proc of this Legendary out of combat it will count a Mount as a Cast... so i got a proc from Ice Barrier or Blink then mounted while moving... This greatly improved my farming speed so letting u all know so u can get your hands on this if u want easy and faster farm time :D

Comment by p00pyjoel

This sounds like a really good item for Destruction Warlocks during raiding. The ability to get off a free Chaos Bolt to avoid a damage mechanic would significantly improve DPS.

Comment by robbiedehand

Really wish this whould have been a ring/neck/cloak so non cloth casters also could use this awesome proc

Comment by Tarmalen

Not sure if an intentional secret, or a bug, but if you have the buff on and you shadow meld you can move without breaking the stealth as long as the buff lasts. My jaw dropped when I accidentally started running around stealthed with my priest.

Comment by Zuckerguss

A simple Weak Aura to make it easier to see when it procs. This is updated for the changes in 7.1.5.

Comment by zhengmaii

As Rispetto said, when I got this on my Fire Mage, my heart sunk into the abyss. However, the next moment I realized I could use it for Frost off-spec. Frost has a metric ton of instant-casts, which will proc the special effect of this legendary item fairly often. Besides, Haste is the best stat for Frost mage and these boots have plenty. The biggest problem is still the randomness: it doesn't always proc when you need to move.

When Rispetto wrote his comment, Frost was the absolute underdog among mage specs and had no reason whatsoever to play in PvE, while Fire was pretty good at everything. Since then, Blizzard has drastically buffed Frost Mage, and now it ranks very high in single-target simulation. Therefore, if you're a fellow mage and got one of these, don't panic!

Comment by ginny

Night Elves can move while in Shadowmeld since its implemented as a hidden channel spell.

Comment by Bisil

Proc rate appears to be between 8% - 13%

I calculated over 27 tries of Helya Mythic progression (Instants cast to Foresight procs ratio), the numbers differed after a couple of tries so more data is required to get a more accurate number, will update after I test it some more.

Comment by Kristopher

Comment by Kobzol

As a mage, you can use the proc to cast a teleport or a portal while moving :-)

EDIT: no longer true as of 7.1.5, the duration is now only 5 seconds.

Comment by cucmw5

Anyone able to tell if the new 7.1.5 version has an internal cooldown?

Comment by DashFury

With the 7.1.5 patch, this is no longer a random and completely unreliable buff, but a guaranteed one that you can actually plan on using efficiently. The old one had a 15 seconds duration but would be consumed at the first cast even if you didn't move, so you couldn't even save it for the right spell at the right time. This new buff lasts forever and only fades when you actually start moving, with or without casting a spell. This is by far better.

However, there's one thing that sadden me. One little thing. It doesn't allow you to move while casting your mount anymore. Now I know it has never been the intended use, and wasn't even that useful, but it was fun. I would jump off cliffs before mounting up mid-fall just because I could.

Yesterday, just the day before the patch, my Nitro Boosts blew up just after a fight. As I was launched into the sky, I realised that instead of waiting for the parachute to put me back on the ground, I could just mount up and go. So that's what I did. I jumped on my flying mount while already in the air, propelled upward at high speed by a faulty goblin mechanism. That was by far the coolest move I've ever done in that game. I'm really glad I could experience it, but also sad to see it go forever.

Comment by Evaelrie

As of Patch 7.2, there is now a visual ground animation that circles upward around your character indicating the buff Norgannon's Foresight. Screenshot submitted.

Comment by Aisenfaire

7.2 buff:

Norgannon’s Foresight: Now triggers after standing still for 6 seconds (was 8 seconds), granting you the ability to cast while moving for 4 seconds (was 5 seconds). Now has a new visual indicating when you gain its ability to cast while moving. Now has an additional 617 Critical Strike (@ ilvl 940) as a third bonus secondary stat.

Comment by redzonelol

This was my 2nd legendary since around January. I have this thing so much it's incredible. I just now gotten a 3rd legendary and unequipped this piece of varren feces.

I am a casual player, so the stat thing didn't really bother me. However in dungeons or raids, it f*cks up my rotation every time it procs. I accidentally start casting another pyro (after the instant proc) and I want to move a tiny bit to cancel the casting, and of course this piece of sh*t has procced and it continues casting.

F*ck this legendary and everything it represents. What saddens me is that I can't vendor it for 70 something gold, to have some actual use out of it, other than the ilv increase in pvp.

Comment by paiway

"That item cannot be destroyed."

Comment by irishlord

tonight i got this for doing the 4 world quests in stormheim. it was the reward. it came out as 970. sorry i dont have more info on it i was too excited.